grumpy-buffalo

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by grumpy-buffalo 11y ago
I wish the term "true AI" were replaced with "strong AI" or "artificial general intelligence" or some such term. We already have true AI - it's a vast, thriving industry. AlphaGo is obviously a true, legit
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by grumpy-buffalo 11y ago
How about just for playing a good game of Go?
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by grumpy-buffalo 11y ago
If you're interested in computational complexity theory, I recommend "Computational Complexity" by Christos Papadimitriou. It's a classic, though it's a bit dated.
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by grumpy-buffalo 11y ago
There are plenty of senses in which infinity IS a number -- or rather, many numbers. See e.g. the Wikipedia articles on cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, hyperreal numbers, and surreal numbers.
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by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago
Primes ARE fundamentally predictable, in the following very strong sense: There is a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for checking whether a number is prime (i.e. the runtime is polynomial in the number of digits of the number bein
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by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago
Careful -- because R is uncountable, there is no system for representing arbitrary irrational numbers with finite strings. All irrational numbers with periodic continued fractions are quadratic irrationals, i.e. they can be written as A + B
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by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago
Could you please explain why you think this guy's questions are stupid? They seemed like good questions to me. His son's school's definitions of "fact" and "opinion" seem to not be mutually exclusive, whic
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Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
42 points by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago|159 comments
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The Ghost Boy (2011)(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago|0 comments
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Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics(nature.com)
4 points by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago|0 comments
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Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion (2010)(technologyreview.com)
1 points by grumpy-buffalo 12y ago|0 comments